I'm getting back into pedal building and would like to make myself a bass compressor. I've been reading around a bit on this and other forums and like anything, everyone has a different opinion. The one piece of advice I keep picking up on, though, is to have an idea of what "kind" of compressor sound would be best for you.
So here, goes: I'm looking for more of a tone machine kind of compressor that tightens up the sound and makes me a little bit more pronounced in the mix while giving me some sustain. I've had the EBS multicomp and I feel like it gives me that tight sound that stands out in the mix, but doesn't quite have the sustain. I have a Ross for guitar which has a very nice sustain to it, but doesn't keep the low end frequencies.
Any advice based on that? I've found some Diamond clone schematics, but I would have to build that on vero and overall that looks like too ambitious of a project. So, def looking for something a little less complicated.
What do you think?
Honestly, for bass, it depends on your guitar and the pickups and the amp. I've built an afterlife, byoc opticomp, rotten comp, pick droppers Ross 5knob comp, an engineers thumb, a bear hug and maybe a few others. My current comp of choice is a soul preacher from EHX. It's tight with a knee switch. Cleans up nice. I use dimarzio split p pups in one a couple of p basses and sd quarter pounders in a jazz bass through a hartke 3500 with a 4x10 and a 15. I ran an afterlife through a peavey tnt115 and it sounded fine in my music room. It really depends on your set up.
I guess it will be some trial and error. I'm using a jazz type bass with Bill Lawrence single coils and a series/parallel switch through a sansamp pre/PA amp and a 4x10 and a 1x15.
Afterlife is certainly one of the easiest to build!
Yeah it is. Sounds like a good place to start.